She had her fingers in the mouth of a dying ebola infected person. - http://www.dallasnews.com/ebola/headlines/20141025-uta-grad-isolated-at-new-jersey-hospital-as-part-of-ebola-quarantine.ece
Recall that Dr. Spencer followed all protocols and does not know how he contracted ebola. He cleared airport screening, felt healthy, appeared healthy, and several days later was in the hospital testing positive for ebola.
The incubation period for ebola is 2-21 days, usually 10 days.
Hickox may or may not have ebola. Eight days ago she had her fingers in the mouth of an ebola patient. Just as with Dr. Spencer, she could have ebola despite following protocol. Why is she making such an uproar? I hope for her sake she doesn’t have ebola, we’ll know in about 13 days.
I agree with your take on it.
I was unaware of her full exposure. Good grief!
Half become ill before 5.5 days; half after.
Here's a chart from a CDC report, showing the distribution of incubation times across 5,000 cases:
The median incubation is 5.5 days. The mean is 6 days. And 21 days is the 99th percentile, not the limit, as can be seen from the chart.
Here's another link (to the WHO), which claims that 21 days is only the 95th percentile, 42 days is the 98th percentile, and 2% get lost in the jungle or something. Hopefully, the CDC is right.
Actually, no. That accounts for only 90% of the cases. The incubation period can go up around 40 days.